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The Exploited and Missing Child Unit of Sedgwick County recommends that if you suspect any type of abuse, call both 911 and the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services at 800-922-5330.

WHAT TO EXPECT IF YOU REPORT ABUSE:

**First, please believe your child when your child makes an abuse allegation. Kids don't make up abuse allegations, so please believe until you have no reason to believe.

**Calls can be anonymous, to 911 or the state. Don't let worries about that stop you from making a call.

**Once you call, expect questions such as: who is the child? Where do they live, if you know? Do not worry about whether you know all these answers, so do the best you can.

**Other questions you'll probably be asked: Who has access to the child, and what worries you about that access? What is the relationship between the abuser and the child? Does the abuser live in the home? If not, where?

**What is the name of the abuser? If you don't know, that's fine too, you don't have to have all the answers, and you don't have to have done your own mini-investigation.

**What do you see and what do you hear that makes you concerned?

**Please call law enforcement and SRS even if all you have is a gut feeling, a thought that the pieces of this picture don't fit together right.